This qualitative study informs project managers of the impact that the authentic projection of
coworker identity via avatars has on trust and potential project management success when …

Games have long been used as a bonding activity; however, research on establishing and
maintaining social closeness through games uses different terms, different mechanics and …

Players are increasingly viewing games as a social medium to form and enact friendships;
however, we currently have little empirically-informed understanding of how to design …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an urgent need for effective strategies to
disseminate crucial knowledge and improve people's subjective well-being. Complementing …

Under what conditions do team learning behaviors best predict team performance? The
current meta-analytic efforts synthesize results from 113 effect sizes and 7758 teams to …

Research in computer-supported cooperative work has historically focused on behaviors of
individuals at scale, using frames of interpersonal interaction such as Goffman's theories of …

Introduction. An increasing number of location-based entertainment centers offers the
possibility of entering multi-user virtual reality (VR) scenarios. Until now, neither cognition …

Purpose–Process modeling is a complex organizational task that requires many iterations
and communication between the business analysts and the domain specialists. The …

Interpersonal trust is one of the key components of efficient teamwork. Research suggests
two main approaches for trust formation: personal information exchange (eg, social …

This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference.
The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio, and …